Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-11
PASADENA.
M Il DICA I'M A l. A II q N
Combined W ith Constitutional Remedies.

OUR TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES
~ of the respiratory passages consists IN
The employment of Menieal Inhalation for
its di,ect effects on the diseased organs;
and, at the same time, adopting such hy-
pienic measures and administering such
medicines by the stomach as will most ef-
fectualIy purify the blood, give tone To
the nervous system, and bald up ara
strengthen the general constitution. In
other words, we employ combined local
and general treatment
What is MEDICAL Inhalation? Before
stating briefly what Medical inhalation
is, we propose, in as few words as possible,
to state clearly what it is not.
Medical Inhalation Is not cure-all. a
nostrum, or panacea. It is not specific
rem edy for any disease 1t is not quack
medicine, or advertised to cure any or all
the ills that fiesh Is heir to, an I intended to
a talisman, whose possession 1nsures health
to its pnssessor without the Intervention ci
sense or Judgment. Medical Inhalation Is
none of these things.
Medical 1nhalation Is simply aud solely a
method of taking medicines by inhaling OF
breathing them into the lungs instead oi
swallowing them into the stomach. By In.
h halation, the proper medicines are applied
directly to the seat OF the disease, iii the
nose, throat or lungs and 1t is clear to
plicsble Inhal alton is in the disorders OF
the organs named. If you have scalded OF
burned the surface of the body, or wounded
any limb or member, you do Not swallow
the remedy intended to heal the disor'
ganized tissue. On the contrary, you appl )
IL directly to the seat of the wound or in
jury Why. then. when suffering from ca
tar h of the nasal passages or throat, or al
flicted wi ulceratio. OF the lungs, should
you rely ON medicines taken into the
stomach?
Medical Inhalation not only applies the
proper healing remedies to the seat of the
disease, but 1t applies the remedy In the
gaseous or vaporous form, in which form
as Is we'll known, medicines act most power
fully. How much greater, for example. IL
the effect of drachm of chlorOform, wher
inhaled or breathed, than many times the
qua tity when swallowed into the stomach
/ he same is true of chlorine, OF iodine. anc
of many other substances: BY inhalatioI
the medicine is not poured into the stomach
and thence sent wandering through thu
system in search of malady which may b
mainly or entirely a local one; but by thi
| method the proper remedy is aapplled di
| rectly to the diseased organ. Who. sfte
studying the anotomy of the lungs. car
doubt that Inflammation and liberation o
the air-tubes and sir-cells. the direct app,i
cation of the healing medicine by inhala
ton to the diseased parts, Is the correct anC
rational method OF treatment! VINO. OF
the other hand, can be SO irrational as t.
believe that the proper and direct way Il
reach the diseased surfaces OF the : ir
passages in this case, is by the way OF thu
stomach? physiology teaches us that fh'
membrane. or skin, lining the AR passage
of the nose, throat and lungs, is only I
slightly modified form of the same structure
as that which covers the external surface
of the body. Why, then, should local treat
ment lie proper and necessary for intiam
nations, congestions and ulcerauons OF I'M
one and not be equally so in the case OF th
other?
diseases of the nose. throat and lungs, de
monstrates, beyond all question, that tn
true scientific treatment OF these diseases
| that treatment which combines the loca
| effects of medical inhalation with the con
stitutionsl effects of systematic remedies
| given In the usual way. by the stomach
| One or both methods must be adopted
| the circumstances demand, and such RENE
dies must be employed as the experience
and judgment of the physician have prove'
to be proper in each particular case.
Medical Advocates of I'm ha la ton
Physicians who were educated twent
| years ago or more, and who have not KEEP
| up with the times in the advance IN medl
| cal science have very little idea OF the grea
importance all leading writer's now give =
| Medical Inhalation in the treatment OF pul
monary diseases. To such an extent is thi
| true that no patient should intrust his cas-
| to auy physician who is not well prepared
| and thoroughly equipped with everythlnl
1 necessary 1OT lDc VI th
proper remedies by the method OF inhala
| IioD.
The numerous cures effected By inhala
lation in cases seemingly past all help. ant
the uniform success attending its use IL
diseases of the respiratory organs, renden
it obligatory on every honest physician t.
at once apply himself to gain practica
knowledge of the Inhalation. or, If that IL
not possible, he is at least bound to- decline
to treat such cases.
the age who are fully awakened to the value
of Medical Inhalation in these diseases are
the following:
The celebrated DR.. Burden Saunierson
DR.. La Roche, OF the Paris Academy oi
| Medicine; Dr. Frederick Langhaus, of ReI
lin; Drs. Klebs and Tommasi-Crudeli; Sil
| Archibald Dickson, of Edinburgh, Scotland
DR.. Eichler, DIR. Cameron, Dr.. Gnrdon Buck
Prot Albert Lehert, the celebrated Dr.
Jackson the Dr. Ro6
Wells, DR.. Hilton Flsgge. DR.. G. P. Wood
Drs. fritsch and Hitsig, DR. Fothergill, DR.
Richard Thompson, DR.. r. 5 Carpenter
Drs. Anstie, Ball, Fuller. Lancereaux
Krauss. Huguenie, Heller. Orth, Corrigan
Fenwick, and many others.
With scarcely single exception every
medical authority Qf eminence recognlZei
the wonderful potehcy of this new method
and the coming generation Of physician
therein. At present it is only a few physi
clans here and there who have made "Dis
eases of Respiration" a life study lh t ar,
fitted in any way to employ the wonderful
resources Of Medical Inhalation in the curt
OF these diseases.
The Durability of COnsu snpti ion
For FIVE years the celebrated DR.. J. II
Bennett waa pathologist to the yai In
firmary of Edinburgh, and in his grea
work on Consumption he makes the fol
lowing statement:
During this period | made upwards o
1000 post-mortem examinations of person
dying from various diseases, and 1 wa
cor ST tantly meeting with cases in which
found cavities in the lungs from consumI
tion, which had evidently healed up o
cicatrized years before the death of tn
subject. Nature did not seem to have bee
successful in restoring the wasted Iunl
substance, but the cavities were dried uI
the progress of the disease arrested, an
the subject lived for years. with diminishe